Dempsey is being inducted in the two-year-old Hall's new "Pioneer Class," which recognizes individuals who were involved in Nevada boxing in the first half of the 20th Century, according to Reno's ...

Jack Dempsey was boxing’s first superstar. ... He married a Hollywood actress in the golden age of silent movies and opened a restaurant opposite the old Madison Square Garden .

One hundred years later, the Jack Dempsey-Luis Angel Firpo fight remains a classic. On Sept. 14, 1923, at the Polo Grounds, ... a housing complex at the site of the old Polo Grounds. ...

The 30-year-old Rozicki became obsessed with Dempsey as a teenager. Dempsey’s violent stoppage of the enormous Jess Willard on YouTube is ingrained in Rozicki’s head.

Not so with Jack Dempsey. His War record does not endear him to the American people; nor do his literary attainments. Yet for the first time since he became champion, he is now “good old Jack.” ...

OLD NEWS: Little Rock turns ... World heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey (left) and Tom Gibbons squared off in Shelby, Mont., on July 4, 1923. From the July 1, 1923, Arkansas Gazette (Democrat-Gazette ...

1921: The Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight match at Rickard’s Orchard in Jersey City, N.J., becomes the first million-dollar gate in boxing history. The receipts total $1,789,238 with ...